CARROLL v. STATE

No. 114, September Term, 1993.

335 Md. 723 (1994)

646 A.2d 376

MICHAEL CARROLL v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 24, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Feeley, Towson (Paul J. Feeley, Jr. on brief), for petitioner.

Thomas K. Clancy, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. General, on brief, Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


RAKER, Judge.

We granted Michael Carroll's petition for a writ of certiorari to consider whether, under the exigent circumstances exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment, the Carroll County Deputy Sheriffs' belief that a burglary had recently been committed in Carroll's home justified their warrantless entry into his home. Like the Court of Special Appeals, we conclude that the entry was lawful under the exigent circumstances exception to the...

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